meaning of ascii

1. Alt. of Ascians
2. ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII art Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics" The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set mainly "|-/+". See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----||--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O L || | | | C U A I || +-->|-+ | +-//-+--o - T C N || | | | | P E || +-->|-+-----+--|--+-o U || | | | GND T o----||--+--|<----+----------+ A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit Figure 1. And here are some very silly examples: |///| ____/| ___ |\_/| ___ | | o. O| ACK! / \_ |` | _/ | | =_= THPHTH! / / / | oo U / C _ __ /// _____ //// | ,___| oo / / | / /------- U __ /____ || | /---V `v- oo / ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/ //-o-\ ____---=======---____ ====___ /. . . . /___==== Klingons rule OK! // ---\__O__/--- \ \_ /_/ _____ __. . . --------`---. . . __ _=============================== ,----------------. _/ `---. . . _______. . . --- _______________||_ . . ,-- / /. --- `/ --------_- - - - - _/ `-------- Figure 2. There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the standard character names in the fashion of a rebus. +--------------------------------------------------------+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +--------------------------------------------------------+ "A Bee in the Carrot Patch" Figure 3. Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more: __ __ __ / $$ ** /-------/ /-------/ /-------/ / | 666 || / |=====|| / | || * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love Figure 4. http://gagme. wwa. com/~boba/scarecrow. html.
3. computer science a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers

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